Surfing the crimson wave
Posted at 11:44 AM Mar 16, 2009
By Sharon Steel |
But . . . periods? Really? What's next, a collection of ruminative essays about bowel movements?
No, actually, that's GOOP territory! Still, reviewer Alexandra Jacobs found herself appreciating the diversity of contributors in My Little Red Book, cleverly titled as an homage to Chairman Mao's manifesto. The collection of essays includes writing from Erica Jong (Aunt Flo showed up while she was on an ocean liner), along with Gossip Girl author Cecily
von Ziegesar (she was walking goats when she got "IT.") But My Little Red Book also includes "reminiscences from grandmothers and instant-messaging
teenagers; from women in Turkey and Ghana and India; from entrepreneurs
and poets -- including one whose daughter's menses inspires her to
exult: 'Tonight you delight me like a lover / so that my thigh muscles
twitch.'"
However, Jacobs notes that what the book lacks is any kind of instruction, which, "in advance of the big event would be nice." Too true. Just ask Margaret.
